[H-GEN] mounting sco hd's under linux

[Jay]

Howdy - I have got a couple of mirrored scsi hd's which contain a sco 5.05. I 
need to mount them under a different linux box to access files without to 
fire up the original box which has become a production linux server. Not a 
good thing to take down just to access a bunch of old files for data recovery 
purposes.

I can see both (sda,sdb) with sfdisk. There are four partitions/slices sda(b)1 
to sda(b)4. 1,2,4 are empty and 3 contains a 'Compaq diagnostics' id(12) 
entry. A mount -t sysv on /dev/sda(b)3 does not mount anything.
It says - VFS: unable to find oldfs superblock on device sd(8,3)/sd(8,19) 
respectively and the usual mount: wrong fs type, bad option etc thing.

Both drives used to be connected through a compaq array controller ran in raid 
1 mode. Google has not been too helpful here with very few information only.

Is there a way to mount either (I'd actually need only one I think) or both of 
them to access the file system? Do I really have to connect them to the 
actual compaq array controller going through a normal sco system boot-up?

Perhaps I should mention kernel 2.4.20 on i686 and the sym53c8xx scsi driver. 

Cheers

Johannes 
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